Rebirth starts from e-commerce

Chapter 509 TikTok
Looking at the huge sum of US$28 billion, Luo Xiu felt for a moment that he didn't need to work hard.

He has spent a lot of energy on food delivery, live broadcast platforms, and mobile payments, all of which have not been profitable.

Instead, he made a large sum of dollars back in a very casual investment.

In the evening, when Luo Xiu was eating with Li Shan and the others, he joked, "Brother is rich now, buy two bowls of soy milk, drink one bowl, pour another bowl!"

Li Shan said, "Buy two buns, eat one, and throw one away."

Zhao Jianye asked suspiciously: "Which era of cross talk are you talking about? It's a little revealing of age, right? If you really can't spend all the money, go buy a few tea eggs."

"When did the tea egg start?" Luo Xiu asked suspiciously.

He still occasionally has a sense of space-time confusion, and sometimes he can't figure out whether a situation has happened in the past or will happen in the future.

"Last year's new meme, can you forget this?"

"Oh, I remembered." Luo Xiu said with a smile, "Some time ago, my father-in-law sent two catties of Pu'er tea, which was said to be tens of thousands of yuan per catty, and my prodigal mother-in-law actually used it to cook tea eggs. At that time, I scolded Her, can tea eggs be cooked with such cheap tea?"

"For the freedom of tea eggs, Brother Xiu, you have to keep working hard!"

Luo Xiu waved his hand, "To be honest, I haven't figured out yet how to spend the 28 billion."

"How about buying our company's biological island? Be an island owner." Li Shan suggested.

"I'm afraid it will cost 200 to [-] billion yuan to take down this island."

"Building the best university in the country?"

"Not to mention the best in the country, ordinary universities may cost 1000 billion."

"To plant trees and turn the Great Northwest into an Amazon forest?"

"I can't do even a trillion yuan." Luo Xiu sighed, "It seems that we are still too poor!"

"Brother Naxiu, you must continue to work hard to achieve the freedom of tea eggs as soon as possible."

"Cheers to Tea Egg Freedom!"

……

In fact, Luo Xiu had already planned how to spend the money.

The reason why he sold Uber’s equity so quickly is that in addition to pocketing it, it is also used for the start-up capital of TikTok.

As the overseas version of Douyin, TikTok is one of the few Internet products that can achieve such great success overseas.

In just two or three years, the number of users has increased at an astonishing rate, which has also made Internet companies such as Google and Facebook feel a huge crisis.

And it has been sought after by Gen Z.

Generation Z is the main force of future consumption, and owning them means owning the future.

In the original history, TikTok's overseas journey was not all smooth sailing.

It was banned in India and almost forced to sell it cheaply in the US.

The founder has never encountered such a thing, and has been vacillating in his choice.

Now that Luo Xiu wants to do TikTok, he will certainly face many difficulties and challenges.

But no matter how difficult it is, he must do it.

Our Internet companies can't always fight in the nest, they always have to go abroad.

It is not a skill to make money from your own people, but to make money from foreigners.

Luo Xiu has always wanted to be a global enterprise, instead of just grabbing food with vegetable farmers in China.

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In the original history, domestic vibrato was only launched in 16 years, and then became popular all over the country in a very short period of time.

Bytedance then created the international version of Douyin TikTok in 17, creating a whirlwind of short videos around the world.

In fact, in 2014, a short music video app called Musical.ly was born in the United States.

Users can quickly create a 15-second MV by dubbing their own videos with music from the music library.

Musical.ly quickly became popular with a large number of users. The number of global users exceeds 1 million, and the number of daily active users exceeds 2000 million.

In 2017, Toutiao acquired Musical.ly for $10 billion and transferred its users to its own TikTok.

It can be said that a large part of TikTok's success is due to the injection of Musical.ly users.

In the future, Trump also used this as a reason to restart the investigation of this acquisition.

Luo Xiu does not want to follow the old path of Toutiao, but establishes TikTok abroad in advance, directly competing with Musical.ly in the short video market.

At the same time, it also gives myself more time to grow and settle.

Let yourself have more time to prepare, attract more forces, and compete with those few established Internet companies.

The United States does not completely exclude foreign assets. In fact, many people in their rich list are not American citizens.

Capital has no borders, anyone can make money with him, as long as you conform to their way of doing things.

……

After Luo Xiu made up his mind, he decided to fly to the United States again and open his first company there.

This time he didn't let Guan Shiyu go with him, after all, eggs can't be put in one basket.

It is said that in some large family companies, there are internal regulations that senior management is not allowed to sit on the same plane.

When the two couples go out together, they must take two separate planes to avoid accidents.

No wonder that in the stories, those who die for love are usually poor couples.

No matter how much rich people love gold, they can't die together, they have to die separately.

……

After flying for more than ten hours, Luo Xiu once again had the urge to buy a private jet of his own.

Now the frequency of business trips is getting higher and higher, and having an airplane can make me feel more comfortable.

As soon as Luo Xiu got off the plane, he saw two FBI agents striding over.

Looking at the two well-built agents in FBI uniforms, Luo Xiu couldn't help feeling a chill in his heart.

He had read a book called The American Trap.

In 2013, Frédéric Pierucci, the global head of the Boiler Division of the French Alstom Group, was arrested by FBI agents as soon as he got off the plane.

At that time, Alstom Group was hailed as the pearl of French industry and the most proud enterprise of the French.

However, from 2013 to 2014, the United States successively arrested a number of Alstom executives and threatened them with sky-high fines, intending to take over Alstom at a low price.

At that time, French Minister of Economic and Industrial Revitalization Montberg realized this, withstood the pressure, and quickly passed a piece of legislation: for the pillar enterprises of France (energy, transportation, medical care, etc.), foreign enterprises must pass the approval of the French government when acquiring agree.

Coincidentally, when the United States wants to acquire TikTok forcefully in the future, our country also quickly introduced a law: prohibiting export and restricting the export of technology catalogs.

The same response method, the difference is that the economic minister who tried to resist France was quickly fired, and the first thing the new minister did was to sign and agree to sell Alstom.Sure enough, no one can defeat France before France surrenders.

However, our country was not intimidated, resisted the pressure, and let this acquisition come to naught.

It is precisely because of this that Luo Xiu has the confidence to continue to create TikTok.

It's just that the company hasn't been established yet, so why did BFI come to the door?

Luo Xiu thought to himself, isn't this the version of the story?

(End of this chapter)